Kiliç Bugra Kanat is Associate professor of Political Science at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, USA. He was awarded the Outstanding Research Award and Council of Fellows Faculty Research Award at Penn State Behrend. He participated in the Future Leaders Program of Foreign Policy Initiative. Dr. Kanat’s writings have appeared in Foreign Policy, Insight Turkey, The Diplomat, Middle East Policy, Arab Studies Quarterly, Mediterranean Quarterly, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, and Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. He is a columnist at Daily Sabah. He is the author of A Tale of Four Augusts: Obama’s Syria Policy, Vulnerable Partnership: The History of US-Turkey Strategic Relations and Mapping the Fault Lines in Turkey-US Relations: Making the Vulnerable Partnership.